[For Middle Grades] Simple Magic Tricks for Elementary School Students: Fun Magic Everyone Will Love!
Magic tricks that are a hit when performed at parties or fun gatherings.
Elementary school students surely want to learn magic and amaze everyone!
Isn’t that what you’re thinking?
This article introduces magic tricks suited for upper-elementary grades.
We’ve gathered simple yet impressive ideas, so feel free to use them as a reference and practice.
With magic, it’s important to perform with confidence!
Having someone watch you is part of the practice, so once you can run through the routine, show it to your family or friends and have them check how it looks!
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[For Middle Grades] Simple Magic Tricks for Elementary School Students: Fun Magic Everyone Will Love! (31–40)
Magic that makes pen tips stick together
A simple yet good-looking and very easy magic trick where two pens appear to stick together at their tips.
The secret is very simple: prepare a strand of hair or a thin piece of fishing line, insert it through the tip of a pen, extend the ballpoint refill, and secure it.
Do the same from the other side with a second pen, and you’ll have two pens held together by the hair, making it look as if their tips are attached.
It’s also nice that you can do it anywhere as long as you have two ballpoint pens.
Magic that turns water into ice in an instant
This is a magic trick that turns water into ice using two paper cups.
First, you pour the water from one paper cup into the other.
Then you cast a spell and tip over the cup with the water…
Even though you poured in water, what comes out of the paper cup is ice! What on earth happened inside the cup? The secret behind this trick is surprisingly simple: the cup already has some tissues and ice hidden inside.
When you pour in the water, it soaks into the tissues, and by quickly tilting the cup, only the ice comes out.
Untearable banknote
If you put a bill inside an envelope and cut it with scissors, of course the bill will get cut along with the envelope, right? But in this magic trick, only the envelope gets cut while the bill remains intact! It makes people go, “How?!” but the secret is simple.
Make two slits on the back of the envelope and thread the bill through them.
That way, the middle section of the bill actually sits outside the envelope.
If you cut that middle part, only the envelope is cut, creating the illusion that the bill wasn’t cut at all! Practice with scrap paper first so you don’t accidentally cut real money.
Using play money, like novelty ‘one-million-yen’ bills, is a good idea!
A tissue vanishes from your hand! Disappearing magic
It’s a magic trick where the tissue that should be tightly clenched in your palm somehow disappears.
Prepare a single tissue, let a small bit stick out between your index finger and thumb, and roll the rest into a ball inside your palm.
Then tear off the part sticking out on top, and when you open your hand, the balled-up tissue is gone.
The method is: before you start, tear off the portion that sticks out between your index finger and thumb, and while you’re rolling it up, secretly transfer the tissue ball to your other hand.
Tea from newspaper!? Vanish and appearance magic
You see this magic trick a lot, right? You pour tea into a newspaper and it disappears, then the tea comes back out of the newspaper.
Many of you have probably wondered how it works no matter how many times you’ve seen it! All you need is one sheet of newspaper, some tea, one paper cup, and another paper cup with the rim cut off to make it slightly shorter.
That rim-cut cup is the key.
Here’s how: hide the rim-cut paper cup behind the newspaper and pour the tea into it.
Then, without giving it away, stack a normal paper cup over it.
Even once you understand the secret, performing it smoothly takes a bit of practice, so give it a few tries!